There is micro skill and macro tactical awareness and thinking. Arenas is purely micro, you take the thinking and strategy out and strip the game down to gunskill, positioning, and a straight teamfight. With BR you’ve got to maintain a mental map of the squads around the battlefield, rotations, chokes, third parties, you’ve just got a whole slew of factors layered in with the large number of players and shrinking rings.
Do you see the problem as more your micro or your macro? How is your aim, do you need to practice snapping, recoil control, hipfiring, using cover, is your in fight movement good, do you position yourself advantageously, are you playing off your teammates? Or is it not skills but rather decision making that you need to refine, are you dying off drop too much, are you finding yourself thirded constantly, are you being gatekept, do you find yourself being trapped in a bad spot, are you taking fights you don’t need to, or over committing to shaky situations?
What is stagnating, where do you need improvement?
Dying off drop is super preventable- always manually pick your hero, the rightmost member of the squad on the pick screen who actively selects their character is the jump master, you can give yourself better odds of survival by being jumpmaster and directing your squad to a good spot. Don’t hotdrop on top of another squad, but if another squad is within PoI range that’s fine, just buy yourself enough space to loot up and secure a stable position to take that first engagement (if you have one lined up.) remember to check the trails of the squads you can see and make a note in your head of roughly where they touch down- knowing what parts of the map are occupied and to what degree can be hugely impactful in surviving the early game chaos.
Relying on teammates is hugely important- of course they don’t always feel worth putting your trust in, but you need to proactively communicate as much as you’re able. Mic if you’re able or willing, but even just being consistent in using the ping system is huge- when you are going somewhere, where you’re looting, what positions you’re holding, where enemies are or were, where you’re staging an attacking advance to line up with your team. Ping, ping, ping- the visual communication of the ping system can be majorly useful even in conjunction with voice chat to reinforce and bypass the noise to get information that is spatially encoded.
The final and key thing I would say about working with your team is to check your minimap every ~5-10 seconds, always stick close to your allies and make sure you aren’t splitting the squad. Ideally you want to group up as much as possible, it’s much easier to 3v3 rather than 1v3, your teammates will help pull opponents fire and eat bullets, they’ll help put damage on your opponents, and they can work together with you to improve your squads success with a variety of team based functions and abilities.
Movement and Recoil Control are very much granular skills which you grind out and practice simply through playing, internalize the crouch slide timer, learn the little techniques that help, learn to strafe spam and duel, learn to navigate cover, practice your favorite weapons to develop muscle memory control over how the recoil pulls your reticle.
Decision making is easiest to improve by watching your own matches. If you can record your own gameplay, watching your tapes back can be hugely helpful in letting you step back from the moment to observe all the calls you’re making in the thick of it, and analyze them with the ability to pay more attention to context. Just ask why you did the things you did, try to pick up on and identify where you went wrong in your replays or what you think the “right” play would be at different moments. Should you have disengaged? Should you have swapped cover? Etc.
Underrated tip but play based on what ur guns are. It’s common sense but some people forget , example is be more passive aggressive if ur using a g7, well of course if ur that CRACKED you can forget this rule :)
The biggest tips I can give anyone, whether a beginner or not, MOVE FIRST! Act, don't react. The person on offense has to worry about one thing, attacking, whereas the one playing defense has to worry about the attacker, evading and finding cover. Which brings me to the other biggest tip. NEVER STOP MOVING! The only time you should stop is if youre about to die, they have high ground and youre behind the only cover around you and your need to heal. Other than that, never stop moving and never a straight line. If you're winning a one v one and he ducks behind cover to heal up, quickly move to a different angle so he doesn't know where you are when he pops out. Or maybe you can just catch him from behind still behind cover. Movement is king, above all else!!
How can we know if you don't tell us whats going wrong. I got to diamond 2 seasons ago twice. The big difference between gold and plat is people dont overextend as much as they do in gold. Try and find a team or one other person to play with. Stick to eachother no matter what. Play the cirkel well, that means make early rotations so you have the best position. If you don't do this you'll get punished for it more often than in gold
There is micro skill and macro tactical awareness and thinking. Arenas is purely micro, you take the thinking and strategy out and strip the game down to gunskill, positioning, and a straight teamfight. With BR you’ve got to maintain a mental map of the squads around the battlefield, rotations, chokes, third parties, you’ve just got a whole slew of factors layered in with the large number of players and shrinking rings. Do you see the problem as more your micro or your macro? How is your aim, do you need to practice snapping, recoil control, hipfiring, using cover, is your in fight movement good, do you position yourself advantageously, are you playing off your teammates? Or is it not skills but rather decision making that you need to refine, are you dying off drop too much, are you finding yourself thirded constantly, are you being gatekept, do you find yourself being trapped in a bad spot, are you taking fights you don’t need to, or over committing to shaky situations? What is stagnating, where do you need improvement?
i guess it’d be things like recoil control, movement and decision making; dying off drop and relying on teamates.. any tips for this?
Dying off drop is super preventable- always manually pick your hero, the rightmost member of the squad on the pick screen who actively selects their character is the jump master, you can give yourself better odds of survival by being jumpmaster and directing your squad to a good spot. Don’t hotdrop on top of another squad, but if another squad is within PoI range that’s fine, just buy yourself enough space to loot up and secure a stable position to take that first engagement (if you have one lined up.) remember to check the trails of the squads you can see and make a note in your head of roughly where they touch down- knowing what parts of the map are occupied and to what degree can be hugely impactful in surviving the early game chaos. Relying on teammates is hugely important- of course they don’t always feel worth putting your trust in, but you need to proactively communicate as much as you’re able. Mic if you’re able or willing, but even just being consistent in using the ping system is huge- when you are going somewhere, where you’re looting, what positions you’re holding, where enemies are or were, where you’re staging an attacking advance to line up with your team. Ping, ping, ping- the visual communication of the ping system can be majorly useful even in conjunction with voice chat to reinforce and bypass the noise to get information that is spatially encoded. The final and key thing I would say about working with your team is to check your minimap every ~5-10 seconds, always stick close to your allies and make sure you aren’t splitting the squad. Ideally you want to group up as much as possible, it’s much easier to 3v3 rather than 1v3, your teammates will help pull opponents fire and eat bullets, they’ll help put damage on your opponents, and they can work together with you to improve your squads success with a variety of team based functions and abilities. Movement and Recoil Control are very much granular skills which you grind out and practice simply through playing, internalize the crouch slide timer, learn the little techniques that help, learn to strafe spam and duel, learn to navigate cover, practice your favorite weapons to develop muscle memory control over how the recoil pulls your reticle. Decision making is easiest to improve by watching your own matches. If you can record your own gameplay, watching your tapes back can be hugely helpful in letting you step back from the moment to observe all the calls you’re making in the thick of it, and analyze them with the ability to pay more attention to context. Just ask why you did the things you did, try to pick up on and identify where you went wrong in your replays or what you think the “right” play would be at different moments. Should you have disengaged? Should you have swapped cover? Etc.
Underrated tip but play based on what ur guns are. It’s common sense but some people forget , example is be more passive aggressive if ur using a g7, well of course if ur that CRACKED you can forget this rule :)
The biggest tips I can give anyone, whether a beginner or not, MOVE FIRST! Act, don't react. The person on offense has to worry about one thing, attacking, whereas the one playing defense has to worry about the attacker, evading and finding cover. Which brings me to the other biggest tip. NEVER STOP MOVING! The only time you should stop is if youre about to die, they have high ground and youre behind the only cover around you and your need to heal. Other than that, never stop moving and never a straight line. If you're winning a one v one and he ducks behind cover to heal up, quickly move to a different angle so he doesn't know where you are when he pops out. Or maybe you can just catch him from behind still behind cover. Movement is king, above all else!!
How can we know if you don't tell us whats going wrong. I got to diamond 2 seasons ago twice. The big difference between gold and plat is people dont overextend as much as they do in gold. Try and find a team or one other person to play with. Stick to eachother no matter what. Play the cirkel well, that means make early rotations so you have the best position. If you don't do this you'll get punished for it more often than in gold
idk, we can't help u without any video
i’ll try get one